Virtualized storageserver (napp-in-one)

You can virtualize OmniOS/napp-it with napp-it under ESXi or Proxmox,

ESXi

Download and deploy the ready to use .ova template or
download OmniOS iso (with Open-VM Tools preconfigured)
Install OmniOS (40GB, 4 GB RAM min, vmxnet3 vnic)
Instll napp-it via online wget installer

ProxMox
use settings (https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/napp-it-for-proxmox.32368/#post-419886)

acpi: 1
agent: 0
balloon: 0
boot: order=ide0
cores: 4
cpu: host
hostpci0: 0000:01:00.0,pcie=1,rombar=0
hotplug: disk,network
ide0: images:vm-100200-disk-1,size=32G,ssd=1
kvm: 1
localtime: 1
machine: q35
memory: 32768
name: vmnas
net0: e1000=DE:2B:F5:8E:00:00,bridge=vmbr0
net1: vmxnet3=52:42:4D:04:00:00,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: solaris
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=93cd5325-c77e-45e2-a3bf-3875fabf07a5
sockets: 1
startup: order=1,up=180,down=120
tablet: 1
vmgenid: de2f4e02-8ec9-4ba4-8adc-01cb45f01dda

For best perfromance, passthrough storae hardware

napp-it 01.06.2025